After the battle of Pharsalia Caesar made him procurator and a Roman citizen.
Late in the day the plain of Pharsalia was the scene of one vast wreck.
Petra has been lost, and Pharsalia has been won, but there is no sign.
I'll strike at your faces like Csar's soldiers at Pharsalia.
Probably the boldest attempt to make epic of well-known, documented history is Lucan's Pharsalia.